a wrinkle time mindy kaling reese witherspoon Mindy Kaling & Reese Witherspoon in Talks for A Wrinkle in Time Among the many live-action projects currently being developed by Disney are a few movies not based on any of the studio?s previously-released animated films. One example is A Wrinkle in Time, a big screen adaptation of the award-winning 1963 sci-fi/fantasy novel of the same name authored by Madeleine L?Engle. Jennifer Lee (co-writer/director of Disney?s smash hit Frozen) is handling the screenwriting on the film.